Weird thought on cooling

[RAMiles]

Is it possible to use freon instead of water.

Freon is much cooler,  its whats used to cool fridgerators and freezers

[nick name]

I'm not sure what role it plays and in what stage of the cooling.  I think it might be what cools off coils that then has air run over them, but I don't think the Freon is meant to actively cool something much above ambient temps.  

 

You should look up how a fridge works and that will probably answer your question.  

[Norwegiantweaker]

it could work but its much easier to buy a good watercooling settup  you could modify a refrigerator engine ( dont know the term for it ) and have it trasner all the cooling to a block but you would be dealing with frostover 

[brandishwar]

2 hours ago, RAMiles said:

Is it possible to use freon instead of water.

Freon is much cooler,  its whats used to cool fridgerators and freezers

In short, nope.

 

Long answer: By "freon", I'm going to presume you mean "refrigerant". And more specifically I'll presume you mean R-134A, which is commonly used in cars and readily available in automotive stores. Aside from the issues just trying to handle the stuff, most refrigerants aren't liquid at room temperature. R-134A - or 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane - has a boiling point of -15F. They are instead kept under heavy pressure inside the refrigerant system so they don't boil off nearly as easily.

 

If you want a refrigerant-based cooling system for your CPU, look into phase-change systems.

[Enderman]

Refrigerants are used because fridges and freezers work with phase change cooling. It would be pointless to use that stuff in a regular pc water cooling loop. Water has higher heat capacity.

 

If you want.phase change cooling you can buy ones for PCs for about $1-2k, those work with refrigerants like a fridge or air conditioner.